Full-On

Before i take you to Al and Ed's place, perhaps you'd like to read up on the fallout of the Ottoman Enclosure Acts?

No?

'K. Mais oui, we

French Thee Japanese!

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Don't you fear, my little American Yankee Doodles, there is but this first in Francais for you. The rest, we have the English fansubs.

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FMA is actually quite the mirror of our world, in both of it's worlds, one of which IS our world, circa World War II.

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First of all, it's about fascism, and the casual evils of following orders.

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Secondly it instructs of the greater evils afforded the morally corrupt when they are given the resources of a society to draw upon and the cloak of national security to hide under.

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These themes weave around a skein of universal truth expressed as The Law of Equivalent Exchange, an alchemical version of the laws of conservation. It should be noted that this law is a real law in our universe, very important to those of us who have...agreements to navigate.

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There are Fuhrers and Homuniculi, madmen and manifestations of military machination; and the greatest horrors are those that humans exact upon thier own kind out of predjudice, indifference and duty with common tools, fire and guns.

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Genocides and coverups make the godlike National Alchemists powerless to control their own fascist government, and the Black Gate ties them to the nuclear holocausts and Nazi death-camps of our continuum with a web of fate powered by the souls of those devoured by the endless wars of both worlds.

Good times indeed for two kids trapped in cyborg auto-mail due to hard lessons in The Real Truth™: Equivalent exchange doesn't by any means have to work both ways. Sometimes an arm and a leg just get paid to the Void and you don't get shit. If you can still complain about it, you got a good deal.

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If you can't find a metaphor in Isballa, just grove on Lust's chassis for a spell.

I'm sure you can Google the rest of the story.